Researcher and Editor-in-Chief of Quran Manuscripts Studies Blog
Globally, few collections span such a diverse range of civilizations and cultures as the Al Thani collection. From November 2021, this collection will be displayed at the Hôtel de la Marine in the French capital of Paris. Spanning 5,000 years, the...
Nabbia Abbot (Nabīha ʿAbūd) was born on January 31, 1897, in Mardin, Turkey. While she was still a young child, she traveled using a horse-pulled covered wagon with a caravan together with her family to Mosul. She then sailed along the...
Quranic manuscript studies continue to fascinate people and researchers around the world. According to Islamic tradition, Prophet Muhammad started receiving revelations from God around 610 CE and these continued until he died in 632 CE. Up until 651...
Egypt continues its effort to stop the sale of Arabic manuscripts of Egyptian origins, but could not prevent the sale of the extraordinary Qur’an made for the Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaytbay. The Egyptian National Library and Archives...
Researcher and Editor-in-Chief of Quran Manuscripts Studies Blog
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